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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED134022 AUTHOR: Lafayette, Robert C., Ed.
TITLE: The Cultural Revolution in Foreign Language
Teaching.
A Guide for Building the Modern Curriculum. Selected Papers
from the 1975 Central States Conference.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 171 p.; For related documents, see FL 008 336-339
AVAILABILITY: National Textbook Co., 8259 Niles Center Rd.,
Skokie, Illinois 60076
ABSTRACT: This book consists of eleven papers presented at
the 1975 Central States Conference. The principal objective
of the conference was to examine the trend for human
relations, ethnic studies, and bilingual-bicultural
education in American education and the new interest in
languages not usually taught in the past. The papers
include: (1) "We're All Ethnics: Hyphenated Americans,
Professional Ethnics, and Ethnics by Attraction," by
Lorraine A. Strasheim; (2) "The Analysis of Language and
Familiar Cultures," by Nelson Brooks; (3) "Linguistic
Diversity in the Classroom," by Geneva Smitherman; (4)
"Analyzing French Culture and Interpreting Some of its
Manifestations," by Jacqueline C. Elliot; (5) "Analyzing
Hispanic Culture: Some Implications for Teaching," by
Yvonne de Wright; (6) "A Look at Americans of German
Descent," by La Vern J. Rippley; (7) "Newspapers and
Magazines in the Second Language Classroom," by Helen L.
Jorstad; (8) "Evaluating Cultural Learnings," by Robert C.
Lafayette and Renate Schulz; (9) "Sexism in French Language
Textbooks," by Betty Schmitz; (10) "Preparing Teachers for
Cultural Pluralism," by Margaret Shryer; and (11)
"Study-Travel Abroad," by Sue Reynolds. (CFM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Bilingual-Education; Cultural-Awareness;
Cultural-Differences; Cultural-Education; Cultural-Traits;
Culture-; Curriculum-Development; Elementary-Secondary
Education; French-; German-; Higher-Education; Latin
American-Culture; Sex-Discrimination; Spanish-; Spanish
Americans; Spanish-Culture; Study-Abroad; Teaching-Methods;
Textbook-Evaluation; Travel-; Visual-Aids
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Biculturalism-; *Cultural-Pluralism;
*Ethnic-Groups; *Language-Instruction; *Modern-Language
Curriculum; *Second-Language-Learning
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